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Titre(s) : Reading Confederate monuments [Texte imprimé] / edited by Maria Seger ; afterword by Joanna Davis-McElligatt
Publication : Jackson : University press of Mississippi, copyright 2022
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (ix-284 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Contributions by Danielle Christmas, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Garrett Bridger Gilmore,
Spencer R. Herrera, Cassandra Jackson, Stacie McCormick, Maria Seger, Randi Lynn Tanglen,
Brook Thomas, Michael C. Weisenburg, and Lisa Woolfork Reading Confederate Monuments
addresses the urgent and vital need for scholars, educators, and the general public
to be able to read and interpret the literal and cultural Confederate monuments pervading
life in the contemporary United States. The literary and cultural studies scholars
featured in this collection engage many different archives and methods, demonstrating
how to read literal Confederate monuments as texts and in the context of the assortment
of literatures that produced and celebrated them. They further explore how to read
the literary texts advancing and contesting Confederate ideology in the US cultural
imaginary-then and now-as monuments in and of themselves. On top of that, the essays
published here lay bare the cultural and pedagogical work of Confederate monuments
and counter-monuments-divulging how and what they teach their readers as communal
and yet contested narratives-thereby showing why the persistence of Confederate monuments
matters greatly to local and national notions of racial justice and belonging. In
doing so, this collection illustrates what critics of US literature and culture can
offer to ongoing scholarly and public discussions about Confederate monuments and
memory. Even as we remove, relocate, and recontextualize the physical symbols of the
Confederacy dotting the US landscape, the complicated histories, cultural products,
and pedagogies of Confederate ideology remain embedded in the national consciousness.
To disrupt and potentially dismantle these enduring narratives alongside the statues
themselves, we must be able to recognize, analyze, and resist them in US life. The
pieces in this collection position us to think deeply about how and why we should
continue that work"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Seger, Maria C.. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Monuments commémoratifs militaires -- États-Unis
Mémoire collective -- États-Unis
États-Unis -- 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) -- Monuments
Indice(s) Dewey :
355.160 973 (23e éd.) = Célébrations et commémorations, monuments commémoratifs (science militaire) - États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781496841636 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47122688d
Notice n° :
FRBNF47122688
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction.. How and why to read Confederate monuments / / Maria Seger ; ; Reading:
reading Confederate monuments as texts and in textual contexts.. Complticating today's
myth of the myth of the Lost Cause: the Calhoun Monument, reconstruction, and reconciliation
/ / Brook Thomas ; ; Print culture and the enduring legacy of Confederate war monuments
/ / Michael C. Weisenburg ; ; South by southwest: Confederate and Conquistador memorials
crossing/closing borders / / Spencer R. Herrera ; ; Cultural production: reading
literary and cultural texts as Confederate monuments and counter-monuments.. Weaponizing
Silent Sam: heritage politics and The Third Revolultion / / Danielle Christmas ;
; "Wasting the past": Albion Tourgée, Confederate memory, and the politics of context
/ / Garrett Bridger Gilmore ; ; Redeeming white women in/through Lost Cause films
/ / Maria Seger ; ; Performing counter-monumentality of the Civil War in Natasha
Trethewey's Native Guard and Suzan-Lori Parks's Father Comes Home from the Wars: Parts
1, 2, and 3 / / Stacie McCormick ; ; Pedagogy: reading Confederate monuments and
counter-monuments for how they teach belonging and social justice.. Rewriting the
landscape: Black communities and the Confederate monuments they inherited / / Cassandra
Jackson ; ; Battle of the billboards: white supremacy and memorial culture in #Charlottesville
/ / Lisa Woolfork ; ; Teaching Confederate monuments as American literature / / Randi
Lynn Tanglen ; ; Conclusion.. Challenging monumentality, channelling counter-monumentality
/ / Maria Seger ; ; Afterword / / Joanna Davis-McElligatt
